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Neil Abercrombie: “It is of course one man, one vote, because our governing council recently ruled that women would no longer have the…”

On the recordFebruary 3, 2004
It is of course one man, one vote, because our governing council recently ruled that women would no longer have the political rights that they had under Saddam Hussein. We are going to take a step backward from Saddam Hussein's government who, at least on paper, had women as the equal of men when it came to their political rights. So if the governing council that we appointed has its way, it will retreat from that which we have struggled to achieve in the United States. You may have ethnic equality, you may have racial equality, but you are not going to have gender equality. That is for sure. They really mean it when they say one man, one vote.
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Neil Abercrombie
Hawaii

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Discussing the implications of the governing council's decision on women's political rights in Iraq.

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